New York Jets WR Brandon Marshall continued his strong season by catching nine of eleven targets for 131 yards and two touchdowns in the Jets’ 38-20 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
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Campbell hopes to return as coach next season, but the Dolphins are only 3-4 since he replaced Joe Philbin, who was sacked October 5. Instead of risking their ability, the Dolphins should play their second string more, their younger players more, and start to hold an essential tryout of the sorts looking for players that could possibly make the roster next season.
Meanwhile, in another coaching move, Miami promoted Phil McGeoghan to wide receivers coach. Interim head coach Dan Campbell and Lazor view him as a game manager. The Jets look to right the ship when they host the Miami Dolphins on Sunday in a crucial AFC East battle among wild-card contenders. So far this season, Tannehill has regressed statistically: he is completing 62.1% of his passes, boasts an 88.7 passer rating, and has thrown 11 interceptions in 11 games (last season he threw 12). “We have to control our own destiny so good things will happen”, Pryor said. The Dolphins failed to score a single point in the first half, falling into a 14-0 hole at halftime. The Dolphins have gotten strong play from Ndamukong Suh recently but still rank 26th in the league in total defense – the same as their inconsistent offense. There’s nothing I can say that’s going to make that look better. He’d finish with 277 yards and four touchdowns. Matthews got up slowly and walked to the sideline gingerly.
Michael Stafford managed to claim a career high five touchdown passes, with three of them going to Calvin Johnson, as the Lions claimed their third straight win.
Though the coach said it was not his intention to send any kind of message with the move, it certainly hit home in a locker room that clearly needed to be shaken up. Obviously, it was a good hit, a clean hit.
Neither team scored again until there were eight seconds left in the half, when Fitzpatrick zinged a pass to rookie Devin Smith, who had dropped what would’ve been 46-yard touchdown against Houston a week earlier, for a 16-yard score.
“We’d been talking all week about getting back to how we played early on”, said wide receiver Eric Decker, who grabbed one of Fitzpatrick’s scoring strikes.
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Pryor took to Twitter a few hours after the game to respond to Tannehill: “Throw a better ball next time @ryantannehill1”, the safety wrote.
